Driving Without Insurance Mr. Gordon Prentice To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions there were for driving without insurance in each of the last five years. Mr. McNulty Available information taken from the Court Proceedings Database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform, for the offence of ‘using a motor vehicle uninsured against third party risks’, from 2000 to 2004 (latest available) is provided in the following table. 2005 data will be available later this year. 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| |Total number of offences| 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|2000 |391,659 | 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|2001 |388,298 | 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|2002 |410,398 | 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|20032 |447,267 | 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|2004 |441,819 | 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|1 An offence under the Road Traffic Act 1988 s. 143 (2).2 As from 1 June 2003, ‘driving a motor vehicle while uninsured against third party risks’ became a fixed penalty offence.Notes:1. It is known that for some police force areas, the reporting of court proceedings in particular those relating to summary motoring offences, may be less than complete. Work is underway to ensure that the magistrates courts case management system currently being implemented by the Department for Constitutional Affairs reports all motoring offences to the Office for Criminal Justice Reform. This will enable more complete figures to be disseminated.2. Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their limitations are taken into account when these data are used.| | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------